Nine Sun-Shooting Arrows (Please Keep Reading)

[Dong!]

[Abnormal activity detected in the host's divine soul. An alien divine soul can be refined. Refine?]

"That old dog actually wants to seize the magpie's nest! I haven't even become king yet, and you're already trying to control me? Refine it for me!!"

Wang Xuance cursed furiously in his heart and, without hesitation, chose to refine the alien divine soul in his mind.

Sure enough, at Wang Xuance's command, streams of violet-gold clouds swirled around him, then with a whoosh transformed into countless clusters of violet-gold flames. Golden energy surged mightily, sweeping away demons and warding off evil.

"No... this is..."

"Ah!!!"

"Brat, you won't die a go—"

[Ding!]

[Alien divine soul refined. Obtained a Profound-rank fragmented martial art: Nine Sun-Shooting Arrows!]

Wang Xuance stood dumbfounded. Refining the alien divine soul in his mind had granted him a Profound-rank martial art in an instant, even if it was only a fragmented volume!

Before he could recover, Wang Xuance's consciousness transformed into a mustard seed and fell into a sea of clouds. Heaven and earth overturned, the land shook and mountains quaked; as far as the eye could see, the world trembled, wind dragons danced wildly, and lightning serpents darted about.

"This... this is..."

The young man's expression changed drastically. His eyes brimmed with shock, and his entire body began to tremble, as though he had witnessed something utterly unbelievable.

The entire sky was covered in cascading blue Sword Qi, like waterfalls pouring upside down, obscuring most of the sea of clouds. In an instant, it became a curtain of Azure Rainbow Swords rising abruptly into the heavens, like a great spring erupting!

Such a spectacle was true thunder bursting from level ground!

A figure in azure robes leaped into the air, one hand holding a sword across his body while the other formed a sword-finger beneath his sleeve. He laughed aloud.

"Ru Yi, after sixty years apart, I wonder if your path of archery is still sharp!"

His voice was like a great bell, reverberating through heaven and earth!

Before his words faded, a middle-aged man rose from a deep pit in the ground. He was built like a mountain, his arms reaching his knees, with a golden greatbow on his back. He looked up at the azure-robed figure, curled his lips, and sneered.

"Old Ghost Li, whether this old man's archery is sharp isn't for a defeated opponent like you to judge!"

"You were merely a defeated general back then. Where do you get the nerve to be so arrogant!"

"Hmph!"

The middle-aged man snorted coldly. His long robe billowed behind him as eighteen golden streams of energy, each as thick as an arm, suddenly surged around him. Like flood dragons and pythons in the clouds, they stretched out claws and parted the mist. The flesh between his brows split open, revealing a bewitching violet-gold eye.

Such imposing force could truly crush cities and shake mountains, sending thousands of troops fleeing in all directions!

His ape-like arm reached behind him and instantly drew the golden greatbow half full. The taut bowstring rang with a metallic roar as a scarlet-gold arrow materialized from thin air. The golden eye between his brows locked firmly onto the azure-robed man's aura.

"Heh—"

"Star-Piercing!"

"Whoosh!"

A piercing explosion abruptly rang out, rumbling like thunder. Countless arcs of lightning emerged across the arrow shaft, gradually converging at its tip.

"Heh!"

The burly man grinned, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and released the arrow. It became a streak of golden light that shot straight into the sky!

The sound was like galloping thunder, rupturing eardrums. Even with both hands tightly covering his ears, Wang Xuance felt his five organs and six bowels churn from the shock, as though he were on the verge of death.

"Hahaha!"

"Ru Yi!"

"This sword form is called: One Sword Makes Immortals Kneel!"

As soon as his words fell, Sword Qi surged within one sleeve of the azure-robed figure and overflowed.

Ring after ring of boundless blue radiance rose from the ground and crashed into the sword curtain overhead. Then, with one arm wielding his sword, the azure-robed figure viciously slashed down through the air. The longsword became a rainbow, and a hundred-zhang streak capable of cleaving the sea of clouds fell headlong, incomparably fierce and invincible.

The sword curtain at the horizon burst like a dam collapsing and mountains crumbling, the streak carrying an overwhelming force as it collided with the golden rainbow.

The golden rainbow was like an egg striking a stone—everything in its path shattered. The entire sky was pierced through by the blue rainbow as it smashed down with unstoppable force toward the middle-aged man with the golden eye in his brow!

The man drew a deep breath and roared. The eighteen streams of energy around him, like golden flood dragons, seemed like great dragons drawing water as they poured backward into his seven orifices and the eighth orifice between his brows.

Under the morning sun, a strange golden hue surfaced on his face. The violet-gold eye on his forehead radiated brilliant light and trembled wildly.

In an instant, his aura rose to its peak. His feet nailed themselves to the ground, muscles knotted along both arms, and he pulled the greatbow nearly into a full circle. Threads of scarlet-gold light formed a zhang-long arrow, golden dragons coiling around its tip. Its aura blazed fiercely as it locked onto the descending blue rainbow.

"Break for me!"

"Setting Sun Pierces Heaven!"

"Whoosh!"

This time, heaven and earth were filled with gold and blue, while the piercing sound echoed through the air for a long time.

Wang Xuance vaguely remembered the blue rainbow smashing apart the scarlet-gold arrow shadow before slashing down with unstoppable force. The Sword Force stabbed forth, forcing the middle-aged man to collapse. Golden blood flowed all over his body, leaving a miserable sight too ghastly to behold.

That golden greatbow was sent flying as well, plunging straight into the earth. It trembled violently, letting out hissing rattles.

The victor was clear at a glance!

"Li... Old Ghost Li, this old man lost to you this time, but that doesn't mean you've defeated me!!"

"Crack!"

The middle-aged man's brow suddenly fractured like porcelain, cracks spreading across his entire body!

A golden figure shot up from the ground and vanished from where he stood, leaving behind only a skin pouch limp as mud, torn open and mangled, flesh and blood a blur.

"So be it. You're merely dragging out a miserable existence; you'll never amount to anything!"

Wang Xuance clearly saw the middle-aged man use the golden eye in his brow as the price to drag out his skeleton and flee through the air, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

"So... that's how it was!"

A series of fleeting scenes flashed before his eyes.

The owner of those bones was precisely the middle-aged bow-bearing man who had escaped alive from that great battle.

He had fled to this place with its cold pool, using its chill to suppress his injuries and the baleful yin energy of the earth veins to refine baleful corpses, all so that he might one day recover.

Yet the Sword Qi wielded by the azure-robed figure clung to him like maggots on the bone, constantly devouring the essence of his life. Even suppressing it with the cold pool was no different from drinking poison to quench thirst. Before long, his divine soul was gradually ground to pieces by the Sword Qi.

The sole strand of divine soul that escaped with its life turned itself into a ghostly path. Calling itself Wu Yi, it dwelled within a secret chamber and deliberately spread word of the opportunity here, luring countless martial artists to explore the cave dwelling. It then waited for someone with abundant blood and qi to make its move.

Until it encountered Wang Xuance. Seeing how robust his blood and qi foundation was, it found the very candidate it had dreamed of. But Heaven did not grant its wish, and it was restrained by Wang Xuance's Eightfold Heavenly Gang.

Afterward, it too became a martial resource for Wang Xuance!

"Hoo~~"

The young man's expression settled, and his heart gradually calmed. After such a brush with life and death, his state of mind had unexpectedly broken through without him noticing.

Rubbing the spot between his brows, Wang Xuance let out a scornful laugh.

"When a martial artist reaches the Force Aura Realm, they condense a Martial Gallbladder in the qi sea dantian from the true qi within their body. At that point, the Mud Pill Palace atop the head opens wide, allowing the divine soul to take command."

"Though my realm is low, this Eightfold Heavenly Gang actually has the effect of locking the divine soul itself. It instead suppressed Wu Yi's divine soul from invading me. Heaven doesn't want me dead!"

With a thought, he raised his head toward the golden screen of the Martial Dao Template.

[Wang Xuance]

[Martial Dao Talent]: Low-grade bone structure.

[Martial Dao Cultivation]: Three-Knock Blood Pass (condensed the second strand of Essence of Blood and Qi).

[Dragon Elephant Grand Stance]: 2100/3000 (Beginner).

[Great Arm Scripture]: 1250/2000 (Beginner).

[Vajra Fist]: Fist technique cultivated to perfection.

[Nine Sun-Shooting Arrows]: 0/1000 (Fragmented volume)

[True Martial Qi]: 0

Nine Sun-Shooting Arrows, an archery inheritance from the ancient Great Yi. Founded upon blood and qi and the divine soul, it could nail enemies to death from afar and without form. It could pierce aura force, heavy armor, and demonic creatures—an ultimate martial art for the weak to overcome the strong and strike back from the brink!

Long arrows pierced the sky, arrows suppressing Tai'e!

[Dong!]

[The host has obtained the fragmented volume of Nine Sun-Shooting Arrows. It contains the martial arts secret canon of the first three arrows!]

"An inheritance of the ancient Great Yi... this martial art is most likely Profound-rank as well!"

Wang Xuance's brows relaxed. He frankly admitted that he had nearly suffered the fate of having his body seized this time, but the appearance of this martial art made up for his shortcomings with weapons!

"Hehe, what a little treasure-delivering boy!"